Family Quotes

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
- Gail Lumet Buckley

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
- Anthony Brandt

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
- Marquise de Sevigne

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
- George Eliot

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmill

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
- Lee Iacocca

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
- Marsha Norman

In time of test, family is best.
- Burmese Proverb

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
- Dodie Smith